Blog Marco

These two photos were taken earlier this year. It was taken in front of a mirror - effectively shooting a reflection of myself for the portrait - duh! (I'm just writing this so the search engines can find the post)

Anyway portrait I flipped the photo so it would appear as someone else took it and the other I left as reflected because I thought it looked a bit 'odd' when flipped.

I've blown the highlights on my hands - not good technique but I think it frames the picture - the eye focuses on the camera then my face... best practise for the future is I guess to first meter the camera on any highlights of a subject then switch it over to manual and work from there.

(Either by using program mode, shutter priority or aperture priority - depending on what effect you want - for this shot probably aperture priority as I wanted the blur effect).

Natural lighting was used in this photographic setup. Taken with a Nikon D70 camera f1.4 lens.

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